Not a bait

I spot a Rattlesnake starting with the farming activities. The pilot seems to be experienced and know what he is doing. He dropps a mobile tractor unit and a mobile depot and is now prepared for the unexpected. I must admit I hate mobile depots and mtus. I want my gank to be over fast and killing additional deployables can be quite distracting, especially when multiboxing 4 ships. That's why sometimes I even ignore them.

Machine Delta is a part of Hole Violence corp that is a part of Goonswarm Federation. It has over 250 members, which is quite huge by wormhole standards. I will need to deal with this fast.

I pre-align the Nestor fleet and enter warp. It's a normal practice I do whenever my target has a mobile depot nearby. By the time my ships are spotted it will most likely be too late to refit to wcs and escape. Despite the sense of urgency, I do try to inhabit good practices and focus fire on the mobile depot and, when Rattlesnake approaches death, also an mtu.

The Rattlesnake goes down. It had wcs in the cargohold as also ballistic control systems. Lows were fully fitted with shield rechargers. I do not know if he refitted to them in hopes of tanking me or it was his normal setup. If it was, it's quite an overkill tank for a c3 if you ask me. Nevertheless, I get an almost 900mil kill.

I was quite surprised it broke without much struggle. I've had a bad experience breaking passive Rattlesnakes in the past. I scoop the loot and warp out to safe. It's time to wait out 15 minute aggression timer and go to sleep, but what's this? Not even 10 minutes pass and I see another Rattlesnake at another site.

Different guy, same corp. You've got to be kidding me. Who on earth does sites in the same system your corp mate was just ganked? Bait, that's who. I wonder if I would see a fleet sitting on any of the active connections? But I'm in no mood to risk it and it's too late. If by one in a million chance this guy is legitimately farming, he's got balls and deservers all that loot. Instead, I get an interesting idea.The Last Chancers were in this system earlier today. I convo a random pilot that I spotted flying around.

Unfortunately The Last Chancers were already disconnected from the chain. Well, maybe that's not a bad thing. It's a shame though. There's nothing more entertaining than baiting the baiters. If it was not so late, I would give a shout out in Wormhole PVP Channel, but perhaps another time. I safe log off and let the Rattlesnake farm in peace, hopefully wasting time of his fleet mates.